Movie List Part Three (Millennial Edition)

Here is the first section of Millennial Movies! This will cover 2000-2004, and will provide very brief reviews/impressions of all the films I saw in cinemas in each individual year. We will have a Best and Worst of each year, as well as a tally of total number of films seen, and best/worst of the decade!

Well, here is the first half of the 2000’s!

2000

Bad:

114 How the Grinch Stole Christmas: UGH! SO SO bad! What the hell were they thinking!?

115 Mission Impossible II: Seriously? Mission Impossible is supposed to be about a team of spies working together on missions. Tom Cruise working mostly alone, firing guns as while doves fly about is not MI.

116 Rocky and Bullwinkle: I am ashamed to have seen this in the theater. Robert DeNiro has failed us…

117 Dracula 2000: Dracula is not Vlad the Impaler. His true identity is…JUDAS ISCARIOT!! I remember this fondly because my Jewish pal Chad was with us at the theater. At the big revelation, Catholic Sean and I both went WHAT!?? and Chad said, fairly loud “Who the f*ck is Judas?” Funny.

118 Gone in 60 Seconds: Terrible. A crime to the memory of H.B. Halicki. However, it did have Angelina Jolie in her prime.

120 Battlefield Earth: Proclaimed the worst film of the decade by Critics upon release. The decade was only a couple months old by this point. Words cannot express how bad this movie is. Greedy corporate aliens conquer the earth. a thousand years later, the last free humans in America (who are at the technological level of Native Americans in 1800) uncover the 1000 year old American fighter jets and defeat the aliens. Wow.

Good stuff:

121 Meet the Parents: A classic comedy, still holds up 13 years later.

122 Me, Myself, and Irene: A film that does get better with age. Jim Carrey was great here.

123 Bedazzled: Not as good as the original, but still entertaining. Elizabeth Hurley played an excellent Devil.

124 Dude, where’s my car?: Very underrated! Insanely silly.

125 The Patriot: a great Mel Gibson movie set in the American Revolution.

126 Scream 3: The last of the great slasher pics of the 90’s. All downhill after this.

127 Thirteen Days: gripping version of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

128 Hannibal: Sequel to Silence of the Lambs. Not as great, definitely needed Jodie Foster. Ray Liota eating his own brain was a nice touch though.

BEST:

3:

129 X-Men: The Marvel Universe explodes! This is where it all started. The birth of comic movies.

160 Die Another Day: Nearly killed the Bond Franchise. An abomination. Worse than Octopussy. All of the problems that were accumulating from Tomorrow never dies, onwards, exploded here.

Good Stuff:

161 Goldmember: One last good Austin Powers film. Lots of laughs.

162 Chamber of Secrets: Harry Potter returns in another great movie.

163 Jackass the Movie: The men of my generation make their mark… so funny.

164 Men in Black 2: Nowhere near as good as #1, but still enjoyable.

165 Bourne Identity: The first of these superior spy movies! a harsh contrast with Die another Day.

166 Scooby Doo: Surprisingly funny movie! Well done.

167 Attack of the Clones: Ok entry into the prequel trilogy. It left too much heavy lifting for #3 though. Anakin’s fall should have started more strongly here.

168 Undercover Brother: Best comedy of the year. Hilarious.

BEST:

3:

169 Minority Report: Tom Cruise hits a home run. Based on a story by Phillip K Dick (aren’t all the good ones?) this was a near perfect sci-fi film.

2:

170 The Two Towers: Better than Fellowship! The Battle of Helm’s Deep, and the performance of the various citizens of Rohan were awesome.

1:

171 Spider-Man: Though a flawed adaptation, this was the one that really broke through the ceiling for comic movies. I can still remember my mom being amazed by how good it was. This is the last movie She, my brother, and I saw together.

We added 17 films to our new total of 171 films.

2003

This was a lighter, but memorable year, for the most part.

Bad:

172 Terminator 3: Such a let down after T2. The last scene was pretty good though.